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1,058 new illnesses in 24 hours: After the number of patients who tested positive for Covid-19 rose to a record high on Saturday, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober spoke with a caveat: The numbers are “worrying,” he said. the department head. Particularly high increases are reported in four federal states: 474 positive results in the Vienna tests, but also very high values in Lower Austria (191), Tyrol (126) and Upper Austria (111).
The increase is Not This is explained by the particularly high number of tests. “This was average,” Anschober says, “with 15,456 tests recorded in the last 24 hours.” An analysis of early tests has shown that the surprisingly high number of positive test results can be seen in Category 1 people – in other words, in people who, as close contacts of other people who tested positive, were already isolated Before the test. Anschober: “That means it is partly an increase in existing known groups.”
Anschober appeals again today to the city of Vienna in particular to ensure, by means of a rapid massive increase in staff, that the requirement of 48 or 24 hours maximum duration for testing and contact person management can also be continuously met. Anschober: “Only if testing and contact person management are carried out quickly, the spread can be quickly limited.”
